THEJOURNALOFA 

 SPORTING NOMAD 



CHAPTER I 



Newfoundland Caribou 



The strong life that never knows harness ; 



The wilds where the caribou call ; 

 The freshness, the freedom, the farness 



O God ! how I'm stuck on it all. R. W. SERVICE. 



NEWFOUNDLAND was the scene of 

 my first big-game hunting expedition 

 after caribou. Being quite in- 

 experienced, I bought a heterogeneous collection 

 of supplies from one of the stores in St. John's, 

 the capital of the country, where, to use a col- 

 loquialism, you could purchase anything from a 

 needle to an anchor. 



My next move was to engage an Irishman, 

 said to know well the part where I proposed to 

 hunt, and he assisted me materially in getting 

 the outfit together, and also in preventing 

 my taking along a medley of utterly useless 

 things. 



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